Over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend, I gave a lot of thought to PEGChannels as I outlined in the previous entry entitled “Food For Thought“. At the core of my mental ramblings was the question “How do we make PEGChannels.org better” and I came up with a few changes.

Changing How We Deliver News

The way we’ve done news in the past has been to pick one story out of a handful of news items that we’ve found on the web. With the story selected, we would then write a blog entry re-telling the story in our own words and then link to the article for more detail.

There were two problems with this format. 1) It took some time to create the entry, find the right image, etc. and 2) It meant that some stories never received coverage. So we’ve changed how we’re covering news so that there’s more news, faster.

As you may have seen with yesterday’s post, we’re now going to feature all the news that we find and include an excerpt from each article. This way you get to see everything that’s happening in the PEG community and choose for yourself which articles you’d like to read.

Bottom line you’ll see more news, more frequently.

Homepage Tweaked

With the change in the news, we also have made it easier to read. We now feature 3 full blog entries instead of just the first few paragraphs. So now you no longer have to click the “Continue Reading” link to see the full story.

While we were at it, we streamlined the flow by removing the mid-range articles that appeared before the headline list at the bottom of the page.

Removed The Forums

I had expected the forums to take off, however we never received a single post other than the ones I started. After six months, it was time for them to go. If there is a demand for them, we can bring them back.

More Articles In The Pipeline

Maybe it was tryptophan from all the turkey, but a flood of ideas for articles hit me and you’ll be seeing new articles soon. My goal is to have a new article every two weeks at a minimum.

Let Us Know What You think

We hope that these changes reflect and improvement to the web site, but would love to hear from you one way or another. Simply comment on this entry, or drop me an e-mail.